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A review by yulelogue
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard
3.0
This was pretty good, all things considered.
My only gripes are that there was zero character development in 1,050 pages, which is hard to do. I assume this was not Hubbard's strength, so it didn't happen. He sets up the relationship between Chrissie and Johnnie, but at no point does he actually build it.
Two, how do a population which has devolved back to a hunter-gatherer mindset suddenly become adept at learning alien languages and technologies? By the end of the book, they're lawyers and doctors.
Anyway, it was fun.
My only gripes are that there was zero character development in 1,050 pages, which is hard to do. I assume this was not Hubbard's strength, so it didn't happen. He sets up the relationship between Chrissie and Johnnie, but at no point does he actually build it.
Two, how do a population which has devolved back to a hunter-gatherer mindset suddenly become adept at learning alien languages and technologies? By the end of the book, they're lawyers and doctors.
Anyway, it was fun.